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Andrea D?...No brainer:
Dandy
Andie

Or in her younger, wilder days she may have been:
Randy
Andie?
(Just kidding! Just kid...Ouch!)

I have no choice but to categorize several poems by my mentor as:
Guzzi's
Doozies
(Now don't YOU start on me Deb!)

Ms. Macmillan's writing style is quite modern so here-to-forth she is:
Trendy
Cyndi
(You're not gonna' hit me too are you Cyndi?)

It is rumored that Mr. O is a care-free soul so some might name him:
Groovin'
Ruben

And be sure to keep up with current South African events in the:
Suzette
Gazette

A Christmas poem composed by Carol Brown could be a:
Carol
Carol

Writer's block PD? No sweat!...Just a temporary case of:
Souper
Stupor

Okay, that's enough...

Premium Member Screw You

My heart

cr
ump
led




like the screwed up scraps of paper
now languishing in the trash bin


okay, so I write humourous poems ...
I rarely write 'free verse'
or 'perfect' iambic pentameter
yet you lambasted me

Your cruel words tore me apart
my writing style will NEVER be good enough to please YOU


So screw you...
YOU'VE WON
I QUIT


My pen will bleed no more
scaly scabs now prevent the ink from running ...

submitted to favorite free verse not for any contest
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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.


Pamelakaye

There's a gal named PamelaKaye
Her writing style, poetic buffet
A sweet Texas tart
Who has a big heart
And a buttocks the size of Bombay

Premium Member Clowning Around

I suppose I’m a poetic clown
I’m content with life, I don’t get down
And I’ll deny the rumour
Brits have no sense of humour
This injustice will sure make me frown

I confirm I’m not much of a poet
My writing style sucks and I know it
I use silly words
Like boobies and turds
I amuse folks just by using my wit

In reality I’m pretty quiet
And I’ve never been tempted to diet
I am a mother and wife
And I just cherish my life
You won’t find me out causing a riot

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Listen To the Warm

Below is a quote written by one of my favorite authors Rod McKuen. He has been one of my greatest inspirations and his book "Listen To The Warm" changed my writing style. I wrote essays about him in high school and have read all his wonderful books that took me on a journey where no one else ever has. Unfortunately he passed away February 2015. I decided to write a poem based on his quote.


"It happens just because we need to want, and to be wanted too,
when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and... 
listen to the warm.”  -Rod McKuen



I hear it so gently; the warmth of our silence.
For me and you, yes us two, we grew…
after all we’ve been through....

Be still, my love…

The observations we saw while sitting in our room,
reminded me of the yesteryears; old days of yore.
Let bygones be bygones and follow the warmth
we created in silence beneath two lover’s sheets.
"I'll always need you, my sweet."
As days go by and the nights come too quick
I hear your heart beat as I lay on your chest.
Ears connected to hearts, and hearts connected into
one, forever dreaming of sweet tunes only we
can sing.

Let there be stillness in our laughter, yet 
tears in our smile, expressing all the magic we have
built up over twenty years of warm silence. 
I may be clamorous during the day but
as the night closes in I will always be speechless
in your arms. 

Lay with me during the cold days and walk with
me in the warm. Feel my hand entwined
with yours as lover’s do so often. The only difference
is that me and you…yes…us two…
will always calmly subdue….

I’ll rest myself on your lap and you can hold
me until our daily routines begin. 

Please don’t go just yet, stay with me here,
I need you to breath and you need not fear.
I always had wondered and now I know why,
we were meant to be us since that night in Versailles.

So hush…sweet man…let’s do what only lovers can…
stay by my side, hand by hand,
Tonight we shall lay together as one,
and we shall wake up in the morning
as still as the sun, waiting in anticipation to 
hear with readied ears…

~listening to the warmth of our silence~

Written By: Laura Loo
Date Written: April 8, 2016

My Response To Rumi

RESPONSE TO RUMI

Tell the Friend I’m coming, with a wine sack and a thirst.
Been too long in solitude, got a sickness in my bones.

Pray? Where was Shams when my need was so great?
“Suffer the pain…it’s the only rule”, you said.

When governed by nafs you are like the dry mule
Being steered away from the trough into the hot sun.

To become a garden one must, first, be a desert;
To become a lover one must, first, be a seeker.

The Master says, “Love is your true health…
The wine we always mention.” And the Dervish

Dances, a dust mote in this “play of presences”.
He knows the door to reality is an illusion,

A delusion…one drink away…and he dances.
So come with me, my Sufi friend, and heal me,

Take this empty goblet and fill me up!
Let’s get totally sick and submerge ourselves

In the sweet springwater. Let the wine flow! 
Let love flow! Bathe our “body, soul, shadow”.

Dec. 3/16 ~ for contest Response to Rumi quote:
                "If you desire healing,
                 let yourself fall ill,
                 let yourself fall ill."
                     - Jelaluddin Rumi

NOTES:
All quoted passages are Rumi himself, mostly form his Rubai quatrains. The word nafs is from the Qur’an and refers to the lower self, the ego.
This is really a dialogue through a third party to Rumi (until the last five lines when we do meet) using his teachings and writing style (or as close as we can get via translations ~ Coleman Barks does the best for me), that is, laying out the problem, discuss the viewpoints and then find a resolution. 
Sorry about the tail-rhyme, you can replace the word flow in line 17 with spill but I think you’ll find it carries more weight as a rhyming couplet. Actually, I worked very hard not to rhyme, there were two others that I was able to erase from my original draft.

Dear One

I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the eventide. 
Oh lily of the while
You let your movement twist my writing style
And your utterances, parch my bile

Your cheek,
Comely and with a perfect sleek
It brings forth my devotion like to a holy week
My arteries gape and tweak... 
When your eyes greet my eyes in streak
And I feel your eyes can unbend an oblique

When you call my name,  l inhale peace
Right from the direction of your sheen anatomical masterpiece. 
It flows into my centrepiece
And makes me say "how I need this! " 

This aura of hightened affection
Induces my heart's rhythm section
My pulse beats to the sequence of your rock n' roll session
Your complexion, 
Makes me want to have no objection
To any of your imperfection
But to uphold your perfection

Your entirety is graced
Euphoric and grippingly fun-aced
Your pulchritude is emphatically embraced
And your probity, well showcased
Appeals to my aftertaste

Once have you spoken, twice have I heard
Like you stole the password
Securing my ghost word
From where I will fangle your byword
Please don't make it your watchword
Rather let us build on the foreword

I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question

I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
     undertaking, yielding whir
ring, sputtering, kickstarting, and
     buzz-feeding at competitive, communal
     crowed did metaphorical trough,

     where household named author's
     top New York Times best seller
     tier, overshadowing under
rated genre bending, breakout aspiring,
story board qualifying,
     opportunistic newbie man
     use script artful dodgers
     mere dust collecting drafts,

anticipating to stir infectious interest
     incumbent - at mercy,
     tripwire activating quint
essential key, which anchors print
ting projected uncertain
     popularity first edition,
     awakening, guiding, nosing
     asymptote analogy steering

    reader toward nascent
scribe, where paper
     back writer wannabe,
     toils away incorporating subtle
     (hook, line and sinker) techniques,
(albeit apropos literary
     ploys, a true test tum ment,
viz sophisticated gambits

     to massage late tint
prestidigitation abra ca dab rah,
     sine non qua cogent
see kant, and tangent triggers
     modest mien fortified, exemplified,
     and downplayed akin
     to unassuming Clark Kent
in his cape ably nonchalant

     transformation into superman,
     and/or more pointedly,
     some original heft leant
to set apart striking 
     poignant implement
exhibited by aspiring 
     writer daily revising,
     albeit gal or gent

his/her uniquely obscure
     trademark, but 
     eventually keen agent
assays non-boastful writing style
     im prim mature print,
     sans unassuming swiftly tailored
     harried style seduces seek
     curing sincere overnight reverent,

well deserved kudos 
     comically marveling
     at thee most im portent
     salient strengths, per
     hops hue moored opulent
quality instigates 
     affinity toward nascent,
bar riddle be, bill leading,

     bud ding scrivener,
     not necessary alluding
     to a hypothetical outlier
thus, any similarity between the
     above statement and
     a living person perchance named
     Matthew Scott Harris
     purely coincidental.

The Only Good Enemy

here be en emimy of tombstone jack
his eminy tried to shoot em back
but ole jack made em see the light
he done it fastr en he done it right
jack showd em the errer to his ways
he sure enoff put the end to his days
 jack doe sent em to his eternal bed
with six guns ablazin en a heap of lead
Im aguessin he wanted em dead
at least that be what the rumerin said
now ole jack he done hisself a goodin
he done left the bar maid a cryin en wooin
worrin hed be alayin here a bullit ta his head
pushin up dayzes instead of winin a trade in lead


Author's Note:
the spelling, grammatical errors, and the dialect are done
intentionally. It is my attempt to keep within the 1800's era
writing style. A writer of that time was lucky to be able to write
their own name.
© K River  Create an image from this poem.

A Poetry Diva

Any Poetess knows her writing style.
She knows her swagger.
Her arrogance is in her words.
She struts even when she is not being vulgar.
She is a Poetry Diva.

Visionary
A Dreamer
True Reformer
Excellent 
Diva of Poetry

Her mind is preoccupied to her theme.
She is topical in her poetry scheme.
She mesmerizes her vocabulary.
She is a Foreign Indian's Fairy.
A Poetry Diva's libretti conjure.

Unique
First-class
Idyllic Rhymester
A Wordsmith of Poetry
Bard – A Diva

Many times, she deciphers.
More than often, she’ll depict.
It would be her expression she lives within.
She is refined.
Within veracity, a Poetry Diva speaks her mind.

Versifier
Set your soul afire
Awaken your spirit into night
Lyricist
Diva Poetess

Ill-mannered she is not.
She does not write half-cocked.
She can be so male gaited.
Golden is her unique way.
A Poetry Diva is a platformer.

Wonderful
Magnificent
Ideal Utopian
Such a romantic lover,
Poetry Diva is enamored!
_______________|
Penned April 24, 2014!
For Kelly Deschler Contest Poems About Poetry

2nd Place

To Kill a Writer

I draw daydreams devoid of grammar.
Jumble memories with synonyms.
Cook laughter with adjectives.
Flirt with rhymings.
Drool over oxymorons.

My masterpiece is not just another
crushed paper.
Or left stale at the back of a 
hotel bill.
Or a long text message
killed slowly 
with backspace.

It is not just another word document
punctured with punctuations,
pathetically clutching the clauses,
with wasted verbs,
privileged by pronouns.

It is a canvas hidden with puzzles,
masking the festering wounds,
concealing a story
written in haste and hurry.
Its my medicine that I can't take
for the disease I can't fake.

Ma says I'm a dreamer.
I smile slyly.
She never know I wrote things for her.
How her fingertips rubbing my scalp,
Stifling my hair
brings calm to my storms.
How her laughter to my lamest jokes
brings rainbow to my colorblind eyes!

They say, writers are over thinkers
who weaves drama 
connecting sunsets and deaths.
I say YES!
My naked words 
quivered with shame
facing your pointy fingers.
So I dressed them with strike offs,
replacing them with meticulous metaphors.

They were as genuine as my freckles.
Also as shy as my face.
Maybe, that's why I covered them 
with my hair of laced lies and butterflies.


So never tell a writer
that her poems are plain!
she's not an upset stomach
that throws up thesaurus.
Never suggest a writer
a new Instagram infected writing style!
She'll take it.
And while you smile
She'll break it.

A writer dance for the tune of phonetics.
Plan a night out with personifications
and never think twice to 
break up with your judgements
building up a tall wall of ignorance
which lets in only the legit critics.

A writer stitches gore with similes,
Iron it with ironies,
Wears it with the pretense
of happiness.
But when you say - 
"It is beautiful" 
and walk away,

You killed her with the blunt blade of cliché!

Belleville Boys - By Bob Atkinson

Belleville Boys

- by Bob Atkinson

walk the streets of
our old town

thoughts of fame not
unfounded

tell us if our
hearts conform

with success to be
adorned

here on those
sidewalks laid for
us

by streets of
asphalt drawn from
dust

lights which shine
for us at night

below the stars of
heavens might

we desire to succeed

we develop from
another breed

we transform
ourselves again

into a newly formed
music band

names will change
along our path

some come along,
some don't last

some add to our
candle power

some step back, some
stand for honor

Connie sang the
"Sorry" song

Bert and Harry had
penned so long

ago, seems ages, but
was nice

when she our hearts
sliced with a knife

Tommy dreamed of
success

as did Nick and
Frankie, Bob

whom Joe presented
to the guys

as wonderment in
writing style

Shorts had success
in history

Cheri started the
money tree

life goes on toward
open progress

twists and turns
leave some
despondent

for the memories
these guys made

as we went through
our phases

their style, their
efforts well
appreciated

from this side of
life's directive

we thank them all
for their work

their toil, their
songs written in our
book

those memories now
folded into

the fabric of our
grasp of future

to those who have
not seen the sights

of minds expanded by
these guys

we present them as a
legacy

of dreams
accomplished with
energy

Premium Member "tribute To Himingway"

Ernest Hemingway;
Him had his way,
Earnest Hemingway.
Not much a poet I would say,
I like him anyway...
Had so many things to say.
Though married many wives,
Couldn’t keep em,
For with other women he was sleeping!
I know for in his Bio… 
I’ve been peeping,
And into his writing style…
              I’m slowly creeping!

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